#ClimateDiary Short overview of my evolving consciousness
2000s: climate change, ecological destruction bad but can be tackled/ a while off/studying this is my contribution
2017-2021: itβs a #ClimateEmergency! We need to act NOW! #Activism
2022-25: itβs a #Polycrisis What will get us first - Climate breakdown? inequality? Fascism? AI dystopia? (Nuclear) war?
2026: Oh, itβs all at once, right now, this is it #CollapseDiary
(and yes i know many of you will have been years ahead of me)
please take a momentary break from the early days of WWIII to spare a thought for the early decades of climate collapse
From: @weatherwest.bsky.social
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gslrbg7et2wxhlhrkqtwlm22/post/3mgxd5gkvra2c
All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.
#ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary This just popped up on my phone and i couldnβt help laugh out loud (a hollow, bitter kind of laugh).
Should we be worriedβ eh, yes?
(and quite funny to see the BBC apparently cottoning onto this years later than everyone else)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly17834524o?app-referrer=push-notification
#ClimateDiary 3/3 all this i know is symptomatic of how things are. I wish i could remember who once said that really this is or should be #CollapseDiary - so true! and of course all of this is interrelated anyway. And itβs ok if sometimes climate is a bit more in the background.
Anyway, just wanted to explain why i have been finding it hard to engage with #ClimateDiary again recently!
βThe world we are about to inhabit is a dystopia of re-constructed facts where our level of interaction with this world will be much like being trapped inside a dream: all we can do is observe what is being done to us without any power to react, or resist.β
Excellent piece by George Tsakraklides. (And yes, i am aware its on Substack. No need to comment on this.)
https://open.substack.com/pub/georgetsakraklides/p/the-dream-that-humanity-is-unable
#ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary another terrible report:
βDrought is pushing tens of millions of people to the edge of starvation around the world, in a foretaste of a global crisis that is rapidly deepening with climate breakdown.β
Mark Svoboda, the founding director of the US National Drought Mitigation Center (NMDC), and co-author of the report, said:
βThis is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst Iβve ever seen.β
When I set up #ClimateDiary in Jan 23, it still felt like many in privileged Global North thought everything was fine and normal; like only a minority of us saw the #Polycrisis or #Metacrisis .
By now, we all know, and know that everyone knows, that nothing is fine and normal, and that all these different crisis are connected.
We may not know what to do. But perhaps we can at least connect to those around us (IRL) in truer ways. IDK.
2/2 - democracy, climate, peace - is not even the right question: it will all happen all together, with so much good community and truth and art always there too. Thatβs what it will be, or in fact is already: we are living it now. And all along, always also incredible small wonders like these dandelions when i had to stop to apply more sunlotion and drink water, along the (loud) A259 on way home.
not ch1c
Pauline von Hellermann
